Classic Hopi and Zuni Kachina Figures (Wright)

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Dorothy Washburn
Emory Sekaquaptewa

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Dorothy Washburn

Dorothy Washburn is an anthropologist well known for her cross-cultural work on pattern in art and material culture, as well as for her studies of native life in Southwestern North America. Among her many works, she is the author (with Donald W. Crowe) of Symmetries of Culture: Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991) and of Living in Balance: The Universe of the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo and Apache (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1995) and is the editor of Embedded Symmetries, Natural and Cultural (University of New Mexico Press, 2005). She is currently working with Emory Sekaquaptewa and linguist Kenneth Hill on an National Endowment for the Humanities funded project to transcribe, translate and annotate the major recorded collections of Hopi katsina song.

Emory Sekaquaptewa, University of Arizona

Emory Sekaquaptewa is a Research Anthropologist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology and a faculty member in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. Born on Third Mesa of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, Sekaquaptewa is currently teaching Hopi to the Hopi teachers in Hopi schools in order to advance Hopi literacy. He played the central role in the compilation of the Hopi Dictionary / Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi-English Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect (University of Arizona Press, 1998).